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[11/15/24 - 11:46 PM]
Development Update: Week of November 11-15
Updates include: Sophie Turner in talks to lead Prime Video's "Tomb Raider"; NBC asks for additional scripts for "Happy's Place," "Lopez vs. Lopez"; and Amazon to phase out Freevee service.

[08/26/24 - 11:22 AM]
Peacock Announces Straight-to-Series Order of Espionage Thriller "PONIES" Starring Emmy Award-Nominated Actress Emilia Clarke
Emmy Award-nominated director Susanna Fogel serves as executive producer, director, and co-writer alongside Emmy Award-nominated executive producer David Iserson who will serve as co-writer and showrunner.






PONIES (PEACOCK)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
8/26/24 - 11/15/24
STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series
DESCRIPTION:
(from Peacock's press release, August 2024) Moscow, 1977. Two "PONIES" ("persons of no interest" in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Emilia Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Emilia Clarke as Bea
· Haley Lu Richardson as Twila
CREW INFORMATION:
· Alison Mo Massey as CO-EP
· David Iserson as CRTR/EP
· Emilia Clarke as EP
· Jessica Rhoades as EP
· Katherine Bridle as CO-EP
· Susanna Fogel as CRTR/EP/DIR (Pilot)
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Universal Television